Minnesota’s Economic News — W/E 5/3/24
Regulation Minn Post: Minnesota should end sub-minimum wage for workers with disabilities WQOW: Minneapolis smokers to pay some of the highest cigarette prices in US with a $15 per-pack minimum…
Regulation Minn Post: Minnesota should end sub-minimum wage for workers with disabilities WQOW: Minneapolis smokers to pay some of the highest cigarette prices in US with a $15 per-pack minimum…
In the 2023 legislative session, lawmakers dedicated over $6 billion in new money to Minnesota’s welfare system. A little over $1 billion of this money went to various childcare programs…
I would think, by now, the political ideology of the teachers’ union is all but well known, as is its track record of spending significant dollars on politics. A recent…
The last six years working at Center of the American Experiment have been the most fun and professionally rewarding of our careers. Unfortunately, all good things must come to an…
Buckle up! The first trial in the Feeding Our Future fraud scandal is set to begin Monday, April 22, 2024 and Bill Glahn is breaking down all the details in…
The chaos of illegal immigration is starting to show up in Minneapolis as newly arrived immigrants from the Southern border line up daily in Minneapolis looking for work. But without…
The Circle of Education Funding in Minneapolis Public Schools is starting to look and act like a spiral. Overspending on the last teacher contract has caused two years of budget…
Finally some leadership! A school board member in the state’s largest school district threw down the gauntlet this week with a list of policies, practices and funding choices that need…
Will she resign from office? KVRR and other news outlets are reporting that Sen. Nicole Mitchell (DFL-Woodbury) has been arrested in Detroit Lakes, Minnesota. Detroit Lakes is the county seat…
It’s a saga worthy of George Jefferson himself. The controversial Democratic Congresswoman from Minneapolis was back in the news today. More precisely, her eldest daughter was in the news for…
Despite pressure from Rochester Public Schools (RPS), student counselor Christina Barton is standing by her statement that transgender and gender-expansive administrative “guidelines” were being hidden from the public. Barton recently…
As I noted yesterday, the Star Tribune carried an article last week by Evan Ramstad which provided a decent tour d’horizon of the economic debate in Minnesota. Titled “Guess what, Minnesota: Retirees are moving here, not…